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ButchPlz said:
About 100 pages from finishing The Brothers Karamazov, at which point I'll probably flip to reading 3 or 4 more of the Saxon series books (The Last Kingdom).
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Dostoevsky is my favorite novelist of all time. I try to reread that book every year or two. The Idiot is my favorite of his though. Awesome to see someone else reading him.
 
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ArdentVol said:
Near the top of mine
took my Crime and Punishment pill this winter
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That was my first of his. It blew me away the first time I read it. Demons is another great one; pretty funny in spots too. I wish the chapter at Tikhon’s had been included in the original version but I understand why they left it out.
 
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ButchPlz said:
About 100 pages from finishing The Brothers Karamazov, at which point I'll probably flip to reading 3 or 4 more of the Saxon series books (The Last Kingdom).
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Great book. I think my favorite is his tragicomic political novel Demons (also translated as The Possessed and The Devils). I also recommend Notes From Underground.
 
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Adam Ulam’s Expansion and Coexistence: Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-73. Ulam was an old master, so knowledgeable, perceptive, read multiple pertinent languages, and writes well. I wish he were still here to take the story through the end of the USSR or even to today. His biography of Stalin is a classic. I read it among other things in a history seminar as an undergrad. I always wanted to read this one and finally got around to. Not for everybody, but I loved it.
 
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Just finished The Passage of Power in Caro's LBJ series. What a series! Now I wait patiently for the final volume to come out

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Orange. said:
Really good book and series. I’m waiting for the final volume, too. Caro has to get this done!
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Agreed! Last I read he had written 900 or so pages but still wanted to travel to Vietnam. So maybe he's finished the domestic side of the presidency but still needs to wrap up the foreign policy side?

All I really know is it's going to be the biggest damn book I have in my library😂
 
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How to Be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci. Good read I thought.

Working on Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories by Algernon Blackwood and looking to start Time of Dread by John Gwynne by next weekend.
 
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#166
Finished Omensetter's Luck by William Gass. Very Faulkner-esque. The middle of the book is next-level stream of consciousness but if you can power through it delivers. I have his opus The Tunnel but Ill need a break before that.

Started Wellness by Nathan Hill. A more conventional, current novel.
 
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bignewt said:
Finished Omensetter's Luck by William Gass. Very Faulkner-esque. The middle of the book is next-level stream of consciousness but if you can power through it delivers. I have his opus The Tunnel but Ill need a break before that.

Started Wellness by Nathan Hill. A more conventional, current novel.
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Where did you find your copy of The Tunnel if you don’t mind me asking? I’ve looked periodically for a couple of years now but even used copies run around 100 dollars.
 
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Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine.

A great history of U.S. policy in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall. U.S. policy toward Russia, NATO’s wars in the former Yugoslavia (finding a new use for itself after the end of the Soviet Union, abandoning its defensive purpose and fighting offensive wars with no member nation at stake). The many color-coded revolutions/coups and failed coups in Europe and beyond. The massive role of CIA-adjacent NGOs, “nonprofits,” embedded propagandists, and big-wheel money. End with the current war still ongoing. Thoroughly sourced (7,908 citations in 6,632 footnotes). I was actually surprised how really good this book is. Straightforward and often a page-turner. It would be a good read for anybody, whatever your take on the is. Adds another dimension.
 
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I just started Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon. Really excited about this one!
 
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Orange. said:
Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine.

A great history of U.S. policy in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall. U.S. policy toward Russia, NATO’s wars in the former Yugoslavia (finding a new use for itself after the end of the Soviet Union, abandoning its defensive purpose and fighting offensive wars with no member nation at stake). The many color-coded revolutions/coups and failed coups in Europe and beyond. The massive role of CIA-adjacent NGOs, “nonprofits,” embedded propagandists, and lots of money. Culminating with the current war. Thoroughly sourced (7,908 citations in 6,632 footnotes). I was actually surprised how really good this book is. Straightforward and often a page-turner.
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Shameless plug but you should read my alt history novel when you get a chance!
 
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